#David Mirkin

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David Mirkin discussing which of The Simpsons writers are gay

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ROMY AND MICHELE'S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION (1997) dir. David Mirkin

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Mod note: R.I.P. Ray Liotta, you legend.

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Season 1, Episode 8 | ROMY & MICHELE'S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION (1997)

Romy & Michele's High School Reunion arrived in the spring of 1997 with little fanfare, but has since become a cult classic thanks to inspired comedic performances by Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino, a witty and lighthearted script, eye-catching costumes by Mona May, and a super fun soundtrack. Join Gabby and Amy as they enumerate the many virtues of this female buddy pic. #businesswomensspecial

https://chickflicks.libsyn.com/romy-micheles-high-school-reunion

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Chris Peterson (Chris Elliott) getting beat up in Get A Life

Get a Life (1990-1992) tv sitcom

-(started) rewatchin’ Season 1- 8/10/2024- on DVD

I decided to rewatch this Tv Sitcom next because I loved it, and thought it was so funny, many years ago! Don’t know if I will feel the same about it this time around, but I shall see.

77% Rotten Tomatoes

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Simpsons S5 E15 Deep Space Homer Fan Edit

A While Back I made a Drawing based my favorite Simpsons Episode Deep Space Homer, I recently become curious to see how the two would match up together.

So Under the Grounds of Fair Use, I decide too combine my drawing with footage of the actual episode itself.

I really think I did a good job editing it, I left my usual logo off this because I felt this was least amount work; I ever had too do also didn't want folks to think I was taking credit for other peoples work.

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Movie Review | Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (Mirkin, 1997)

A few months ago I got an invitation for a 10th anniversary reunion gathering for my undergrad, and after being bombarded with dozens of Whatsapp messages over the course of a couple of hours, I made the very wise decision to put the chat on mute. I had no interest in going, as the thing reeked of a fundraising opportunity, and I had too much negative baggage from not fitting in with my classmates and not having had very many friends at the time, on top of feeling totally unsupported by my university with respect to the job hunt. So I had no real interest in going to something to talk to a bunch of people I didn’t like while likely being hit up for money for a program that was already pretty well funded. Yet I did find myself checking the chat for updates periodically, so I suppose I hadn’t totally quashed a certain curiosity about how others were doing.

Over the years, I’ve learned to not worry about comparing myself to others and be happy with where I am professionally and personally. And at least in the former, I think I’m doing pretty okay. I work in a field where I ostensibly use my education, and my current role at least has been pretty tolerable in most respects. But when I log in to my Linkedin periodically (anywhere from a couple of months to over a year, the longest stretch having been the time I made two years worth of job updates to my profile), and notice some of the fancy titles of people I went to school with, and a certain pang of inadequacy arises. It’s silly, I have no interest in pursuing another role or drastically changing my career path at this time, but I suppose such feelings are unavoidable and one of the reasons I avoid logging in for long periods of time in the first place.

A lot of movies about high school and college are about the value of the experiences one undergoes in those years, and I often feel at a bit of a disconnect, as quite frankly, I didn’t have a lot of the same experiences (the side effects of being an antisocial weirdo and an outsider in multiple respects). So I appreciate that this movie serves as a kind of dark matter coming of age movie, that it channels the absence of those experiences, the resulting feelings of inadequacy of not having kept up with all the expected life and career milestones, and the way long-term, fulfilling friendships can still bloom and survive without those things.

So the movie does offer a fair bit of wisdom and insight on top of being an engaging comedy. To take a few words from Roger Ebert:

“Comedies are hard to make well. The proof is in how many are made badly. This one is light as a feather and cheerfully inconsequential, and most of the developments are predictable, but it has charm, a sly intelligence, and the courage to go for special effects sequences such as a weird run-in with a limo. And then there's that three-way dance number at the reunion. I can't believe how cute they look. Honest.”

Listen, you fill the soundtrack with Devo, the Go-Gos, Bananarama, and I’m already having a good time. But this was also made when they still shot these things on film and bothered to light them, and has costumes in eyepopping colours and dark brooding ones as well. It is astute about the ways clothing can either mask or express one’s personality, and the extent to which it can do either one. The heroine’s business suits are less convincing than their shiny dresses, and Janeane Garofalo’s all black getup better serves her sarcastic demeanour than the cute mango print foisted on her in the coda. It’s also astute about the ways a movie can reflect one’s beauty, with none other than Alan Cumming undergoing two transformations in ways that slyly satirize the makeover trope common in the genre. And while it is occasionally glib (I think a better movie would have extended its generous gaze onto the mean girl and mined her for depth), there is a genuine warmth in the friendship between the heroines and some of the other characters too.

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Thought I should start documenting my DVD collection so here we go! Picked all these up a couple weeks ago!

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ROMY AND MICHELE'S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION (1997) dir. David Mirkin

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5.7.24

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Ray Liotta in HEARTBREAKERS (2001) dir. David Mirkin

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